New Look for Internet Archive
October 29, 2014
The Internet Archive has a new look. You may have seen the change, but I don’t visit the site too frequently. I have struggles with its search system.
The new look features many postage stamp graphics and some text. Click on a graphic and one is sent to the appropriate Archive page.
Here’s a screenshot of the content available to you.
How does one search this content? The search box returns a list of hits with an icon indicating the content type. Have the cheerleaders for unified search would have cracked the information access challenge for a single search box to access mixed content types? I am still a fan of one at a time searching. Inefficient, but I get a sense of the collection’s scope and the idiosyncrasies of the indexed information.
Searching today is more difficult than it was in 1980 in my opinion. The method required is to know what in a collection before one queries it.
How does one know what’s in each of these collections? Well, unfortunately you can no longer ask a librarian in many organizations.
You are on your own, pilgrim.
Stephen E Arnold, October 29, 2014
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